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recent bookmarks from jmAsteroid "mining" with Linux and FOSS2013-10-28T22:57:17+00:00
http://lwn.net/Articles/567288/
jmPlanetary Resources is a company with a sky-high (some might claim "pie in the sky") goal: to find and mine asteroids for useful minerals and other compounds. It is also a company that uses Linux and lots of free software. So two of the engineers from Planetary Resources, Ray Ramadorai and Marc Allen, gave a presentation at LinuxCon North America to describe how and why the company uses FOSS—along with a bit about what it is trying to do overall.
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